Kafr Abbush

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Kafr 'Abbush (Arabic: كفر عبّوش) is a Palestinian town in the Tulkarm Governorate in the northwestern West Bank.

[7] Kafr 'Abbush was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared under the name of Abbush in the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Bani Sa'b, part of Nablus Sanjak.

The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on various agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and/or beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 4,974 akçe.

[10] In the 1860s, the Ottoman authorities granted the village an agricultural plot of land called Ghabat Kafr 'Abbush in the former confines of the Forest of Arsur (Ar.

[11][12] In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Kafr Abbush as: "a stone village of moderate size, on steep round hill, with a few olives.